Hi there!

Thank you for visiting my website! My name is Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal and I’m based in India (Asia).

About me:

• A Statistician by training,
• An Open Source and Open Science Advocate,
• Lead and Co-Founder of the RSE Asia Association,
• Community Manager (Asia) for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), and
• International Fellow of the 2023 Inauguration of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI Fellow).

Occasionally I’m open to freelance opportunities. Reach out to me if you have freelance or other suitable opportunities available.

To have a discussion with me please book a meeting.

Subject Matter Expert in the Open Science Tools and Resources Module of the the NASA-AGU-TOPS initiative. Developed foundational content for the module with a group of experts.

Using the learnings from the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at Code for Science and Society in a project to Expand and Reorganize the R Development Guide. For this project I am working as a Technical Writer at Google Season of Docs 2022 with The R Foundation.

Written the R Development Guide in 2021 as a project funded by the R Foundation. Mentor: Heather Turner, Michael Lawrence.

Completed the Google Summer of Code 2020 with the Turing team of the Julia language organisation. Mentor: Hong Ge, Cameron Pfiffer, Miles Lucas.

Created Zine for CarpenPi organization with a funding from the Data Science by Design (DSxD) initiative.

Asia Pacific Advanced Network, APAN55, Kathmandu, Nepal: March 13-17, 2023

Collaborations Workshop 2023, Manchester, UK: May 2-4, 2023

Reach out to me if you want me to present a talk!

FOSDEM’23: Presented a talk on “Establishing the Research Software Engineering (RSE) Asia Association with the Open Life Science programme” in the Open Research Tools and Technology devroom at FOSDEM’23.

CSCCE Community Call November 2022: Invited to participate as a panelist in the CSCCE’s November 2022 Community Call on “Creating fulfilling volunteer opportunities in open source software communities”.

Strategy and Policy Panel at RSE Asia Australia Unconference 2022: Participated in the Strategy and Policy Panel of the Unconference and also hosted the Early Career RSE Keynote.

Poster Presentation, Lightning talk, RSE Worldwide Panel, Coding Confessions Panel at RSECon 2022: I presented a Poster and corresponding lightning talk of my work based on ‘RSE Asia Association: A year in making’. I was also invited to participate in the RSE Worldwide Panel and the Coding Confessions Panel at this conference.

Lightning talk at CarpentryCon 2022: I presented a lightning talk of my work based on ‘Creating reusable lessons using the Carpentries Workbench template’.

Experience talk at JuliaCon 2022: I presented an experience talk of my work based on ‘Community Building using Open Science Principles’. This talk highlighted my work on building the RSE Asia Association.

Digital Infrastructure Incubator Graduation Talk: Presented the work and learnings from the Incubator for the project on “Building Community around the R Development Guide” at “The Practice of Digital Infrastructure” session organized by Code for Science and Society. This presentation was alongside five other projects that participated in the Incubator cohort.

Invited talk: Invited to present a talk on “Early career research viewpoint on future vision for DEI in RSE” presented at “Vive la différence - research software engineers” at the Lorentz Centre Workshop organized by the “Research Software Alliance”. It was an hybrid event with an in-person element from 19-22 April 2022 at the Lorentz Centre in the Netherlands; and online events from March-April 2022 across different time zones.

Lightning talk & Hack Day participation at CollabW22: Presented a lightning talk on “RSE Asia Association: In making” at the Collaborations Workshop 2022 hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute. Also presented a pitch to build a Carpentries-style Lesson on R's Bug Tracking Process which secured the 3rd position on the Hack Day. As a part of this task we converted the materials from the Collaboration Campfires (on learning how to contribute to R) into a reusable lesson using The Carpentries Workbench template and the R package sandpaper. The lesson created is hosted on the r-devel GitHub organization.

Workshop talk at APAN53: Presented a talk on “Research Software Engineering initiative in Asia region” at Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN53, Bangladesh). This talk was a part of the workshop on “Growing research software initiatives and communities in the Asia Pacific”.

Panel discussion at APAN53: Presented my talk at the Panel Discussion on “Accelerating the paradigm shift towards Open Science and Data Sharing in Pandemic times and Beyond” held at APAN53, Bangladesh.

Lightning talk at PackagingCon 2021: Presented a lightning talk on “Turing.jl: An Overview”. The talk was an overview of Turing.jl which is a Julia library focusing on Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming. This was the first edition of PackagingCon 2021, which is a conference held with the aim to bring various software ecosystems together.

Invited talk at LatinR 2021: Presented an Invited talk on “R Development Guide: Motivation, First Draft, and the Way Forward”. This is a Latin American conference about the use of R in R&D.

Virtual poster presentation at JuliaCon 2021: I presented a virtual poster of my work based on ‘Algorithmic Variants of Nested Sampling’. I developed these algorithms while working for the Google Summer of Code 2020 with the Turing team of the Julia Language organization. I also moderated the single track sessions of JuliaCon 2021.

Regular talk at useR! 2021 - The R Conference: In the ‘1A Community and Outreach 1’ session on the ‘R Developer’s Guide’ (now called as the ‘R Development Guide’). During the conference, I also attended the tutorials on ‘Contributing to R’ (conducted by Gabriel Becker and Martin Maechler) and ‘Translating R to Your Language’ (conducted by Michael Chirico and Michael Lawrence). I was also the Zoom Host for various tutorials and sessions of this international online conference.